A Companion to Andrei Platonov's the Foundation Pit (Studies in Slavic and Russian Literatures, Cultures and History) (Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and His)

by ThomasSeifrid (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2009

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  Written at the height of Stalin's first 'five-year plan' for the industrialisation of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivise Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair.